Join us for the session „War memories and the Environment“ of TODO team member Thao Ho‘s seminar „American War in Vietnam: Protest and Memory Culture“ on 30.01.2025 with a guest lecture by Maithu Bùi:

Operation Remediation

Maithu Bùi’s work examines networks of violence at the intersection of collective history, science and technology. Operation Remediation interweaves storytelling with geohistory and science communication. Informed by their own history, their work examines never-ending wars and the diffusion of exploitative technologies. Their upcoming work Operation Remediation explores the exploitation of marginalized life forms in the disposal and detection of explosives and their impact on ecology.
The guest lecture will refer to the selected texts by Zani and Stoler. 

Please register at hodacmit@hu-berlin.de.
Along with Maithu Bùi’s work, we will discuss „Bomb Ecologies“ by Leah Zani and „The Rot Remains“ by Ann Laura Stoler. PDF files will be send upon registration.

On January 28th 2025, from 16:00 to 18:00 (DOR 24, Raum 1.101), Fenja Akinde-Hummel and Elahe Haschemi Yekani will present a lecture on “Polyphony and the Postcolonial Novel” as part of the Ringvorlesung Literatur und Musik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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As part of the workshop The Elusive “Global”: Potential Histories of Art and Media, Ruhr-University Bochum, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will talk about “Archive Interventions”.

Academic writers (e.g. Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe), poets (e.g. M. NourbeSe Philip, Layli Long Soldier) and visual artists (e.g. Sung Tieu, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński) intervene directly into the documents of the historical archive, with the aim to “sense it more”, “to really see”, to take “revenge”. They redact, cut out, “kill” the instruments of colonial oppression, text and image. I want to highlight the affective urgency of these interventions, not in opposition to but also not identical with an analytical interest. Archival violences here are felt ‘personally’, they demand a ‘personal’ response. These interventions, I believe, are less oriented towards institutional change, but rather take seriously the immediate effects of the material. What can be learned from the way artists and scholars inscribe themselves ‘personally’ into the text for post-colonial or de-colonial studies? I will present examples and discuss mostly visual strategies.

More information here https://das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/the-elusive-global-potential-histories-of-art-and-media/